John Dow

I think it'll be an uphill battle to get Orbx to adopt a sales strategy that goes against the principles of a commercial vendor, but as Nick says the suggestion will be considered. From the developers point of view, who after all are the ones who put in the long tedious hours to develop the sceneries, a mixing of full price and sales items will always be advantageous.

My 2c worth... imagine if you asked your local supermarket to put all the specials in one aisle so you didn't need to walk past the normal priced produce to find things on special. What do you think the reaction would be?

I can report full download speed from Orbx Central through my ISP Aussie Broadband, including complete scenery packages, at 5+ MB/sec, right through the Christmas period and last night.

I'm not aware of any Canberra city add on for MSFS. Canberra Airport from Impulse Simulations yes, but as far as I know there's no city scenery for Canberra.

Think I'll give it a miss. I can't think of anything that could improve the frame rates in VR, which I have running quite well, and I get 40 fps or more in 2D, and that's all I need. If one day I become a pigeon and can see the difference between 40 and 80 fps without the frame counter, I will return to the forums to see if it's worth putting in the effort. Since around the days of FS98 I have seen magical tweaks and programs come and go and I can't think of a single one that didn't produce at least some form of unintended problem, whether it was stuttering, screen tearing or something else. Time after time, the only stable option has been to use the sim as designed by the developer in conjunction with the CPU and GPU manufacturers.

Well, it's not. Maybe my install was an earlier version.

It'll be to a different SSD so some work might be involved, but all the MSFS user settings remain the same yes. I'm wondering if this frame rate generation thing is all it is being touted as. It might be just a clever routine that simply duplicates existing generated frames and doesn't add any actual content. It would seem a bit too much of a miracle to me to be able to overturn the hurdles that have faced tweakers and developers since the birth of FS. I think I'll wait for some evidence of how this miraculous increase in performance is actually engineered before I spend too much time trying to install it.

No I don't have the second folder. Might be time to delete my current MSFS install and install again from the Game Store?

I don't see any option in GPU-Z to find a program location! Also when I right click on the MSFS entry in Task Manager and select show file location it doesn't open anything, the command does nothing. And I know I've got the right location because when I click on FlightSimulator.exe in that location I found, MSFS starts. Very frustrating

Doesn't work for me, I try to copy the files to the folder where the FlightSimulator.exe is and it won't allow me. the message is that I don't have any room in the folder, which I'd say is their way of saying access to put anything in the folder is denied.

I don't know about that sorry, Nick can probably help when he comes online later.

I think the discount is applied when you purchase the V2 and go to checkout. If it isn't applied don't proceed with the transaction.

You can delete the entire P3D4 folder. Also there will be P3DV4 folders under Lockheed Martin in your Appdata Roaming and maybe Local folders, as well as a folder in the Cdrive whose name escapes me at the moment(it's called ProgramData. P3DV4 should no longer appear in your Orbx Central, if it does appear then you might need to Google how to remove the Registry entries.

This popped up on the internet today. Great shot, it'd be interesting to pop up to the same height in the various sims and see how they compare!

I think you'll find it's an automatic process, based on the coding for the bulletin board. So it's not actually a demotion, just a change in status, due I think to activity.

Orbx's servers were with a massive provider on the eastern seabord of the US the last time I heard, and I assume they still are. I don't have any answers as to why other downloads are fine but Orbx is throttled, but my experience, and that of others, is that some providers don't seem to be able to get Orbx downloads at full speed, others, like my Aussie Broadband, seem to be able to deliver. That's why I say you need to investigate your provider and their network arrangements.

I reiterate, it's likely to be something associated with your provider. When I had the problem I took my computer to my sister's house for rigorous testing, and her provider delivered consistent full speed downloads. When I took my computer back home, same problem, Orbx downloads started full speed but dropped to a crawl after a short time. And yet the speed tests across Australia were all consistently full speed. However, I was given a speed test that actually measured international speeds through my provider: http://www.myspeedmeter.net. That test confirmed that data coming from international servers was being throttled by my ISP or further up their network. Since I moved to my current provider, international data comes through as fast as Australian data. I'm not sure what you think Orbx can do about ISPs that can't deliver their content at full speed?

It's possible that many ISPs and their providers buried deeper in the network seem to assume Orbx is a P2P or Torrent site given the large data volumes. That would be why some faceless manager decides to throttle the downloads, or... alternatively, a server somewhere in the network has a corrupted file and the data is throttled back to process it and then it stays that speed until reset. I'm not privy to the actual goings-on but it has been well and truly established over many years now that it's outside Orbx's control.

I had this problem all the time when I was with a budget ISP (Spintel). I swapped to a better ISP (Aussie Broadband) and since then I have had no problems. With Spintel the download would start at 5MB/s and then slow to similar figures to what you are getting. That would be something I would be investigating because it's outside Orbx's control.

Time and time again the slow connection posts pop up. If you read the old support forums you'll see time and time again the explanation that it's the ISPs and other network aspects that are causing the problem, which generally resets within 24 - 48 hours. Nothing Orbx can do about it.

Preview Announcements, Screenshots and Videos. The word preview might just be the clue as to why.

Saw this headline in my news feed. Old timers here should understand why I did a double-take!

I don't think London is being included, however, if you have any specific issues with any of the buildings in London, let us know what you are seeing and we can test the product and if there are any problems that aren't MSFS related (not all LOD problems are fixable especially when photogrammetry is involved) I'm sure the team will be open to having a look at a fix sometime when resources are available.

Search forums for similar topics going back years. You'll see that it's not Orbx but the internet ISPs and servers that are the problem. Problem sometimes clears up with a reboot of Orbx Central etc, otherwise it generally resolves in 24 - 48 hours

Because it's not a simple taak. By the time all the work has been done it's almost as time consuming as creating an airport from scratch. That's why.